New Mexico Book Awards Rio Arriba: A New Mexico County Rio arriba.
As the history unfolds, the reader learns about the Spanish conquistadores and later-arriving Americans, their often contentious relations with the Native American peoples, and how the communities they established and the institutions they brought with them helped shape the Rio Arriba County of today..
The authors provide us an overview of its primordial beginnings (that left us the fossilized remains of coelophysis, our official state fossil), introduce us to the Tewa peoples that established the county\'s first permanent settlements, as discuss the role the Navajo, Ute, and Jicarilla Apache played in the region\'s history.
Rio Arriba: A New Mexico County reviews the history of this fascinating and unique area.
T rrez, Robert Trapp, long-time owner and publisher of Espa ola\'s Rio Grande Sun, and eight additional authors have come together to examine the long and complex history of this rio arriba.
Former New Mexico State Historian Robert J.
The words define a vast portion of New Mexico that extends from the historic villa of Santa Fe north into the San Luis Valley of today\'s southern Colorado.
In the upper case, they stand for Rio Arriba County, a geopolitical entity that constitutes a small portion of the historic rio arriba.
In Spanish, the lower case rio arriba stands for the "upper river," that portion of northern New Mexico that straddles the Rio del Norte, the historic name of the Rio Grande.
New Mexico Book Awards Rio Arriba: A New Mexico County Rio arriba
